Topics Covered
RStudio Tour
Navigate the four-panel layout: Console, Source, Environment, and Files/Plots.
Package Management
Install and load essential packages like tidyverse, here, and patchwork.
Project Workflow
Set up RStudio Projects for reproducible, portable analysis from day one.
Key Concepts
- Why scripts beat the console for reproducibility
- The difference between base R and the tidyverse philosophy
- Folder structure best practices for data analysis projects
Gallery — What R Can Do
Wind Turbines vs Cats — a data story told with a single bar chart
Florida population density rendered with rayshader — 3D maps from R
Macro sleep architecture in meditators vs controls — circular stacked bars in ggplot2
Homework
- Create a new RStudio Project and organize it with
data/,code/, andoutput/folders - Write a short R script that loads the palmer penguins (a built-in dataset and prints a summary. Use glimpse and describe